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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 73.00.00c

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Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1873 [73.00.00c]. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/73-00-00c>, accessed September 11, 2025

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MS is embossed with the crest of 'Royal Gardens Kew'. The fragment is undated, but the references to John Booth's
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and the tree ferns clearly follow on from mentions of them in J. Hooker to M, 15 January 1873. The account of the
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seems, however, to report a later stage in their development, suggesting that it was sent later than that letter. The page begins without any salutation.
As to the International Exhibition; I have not even seen it & I doubt if I shall. I have no time whatever now to attend to these matters. I believe it will be annual but I think the public interest in these Exhibitions is fast waning.
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London International Exhibition, 1873. International exhibitions were held annually in London, 1871-4.
Booth has not sent for his
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yet, one of the two is growing I hope, at least it is swelling at the top. The other shows no signs of life yet. The 12 ft. tree fern (
Dicksonia

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) is doing well, but the 20 ft
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I despair of. The
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is in superb order.
Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata

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is flowering.
The little box of K.G. Sound
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King George Sound, WA.
plants arrived last week, all dead. That Calico plan of roofing does not answer for any thing I find.
We are very busy now with the Flora of British India
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J. Hooker (1875-97).
of which I hope to send you Pt II in a month at the outside. Bentham is at
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for Martius Flora
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The final part of Bentham (1859-76), 'Leguminosae, III:
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', was published on 1 July 1876 as vol. 15, part 2, pp. 257-504.
after which he will proceed to the concluding volume of the Flora Australiensis.
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Bentham (1863-78), vol. 7.
He is remarkably well & very busy with the change of apartments of the Linn. Soc.; which will have him splendidly housed at Burlington House.
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The Linnean Society occupied its new rooms in Burlington House, London, at the end of October 1873.
How I wish that we could welcome you there — but I suppose that you have no intention of taking a holiday & visiting England.
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but …holiday is marked with a pencilled line in the margin.
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is flourishing, so our Australia shelves will [bear] a lasting testimony to your services to Scientific Horticulture.
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shelves … Horticulture is marked with a pencilled line in the margin.
Ever my dear Mueller
Most sincerely your
Jos. D Hooker.